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DISPLAY FRAME.

Patented June 16, 1885.

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DISPLAY FRAME.

No. 320,122. Patented June 16, 1885.

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vVlLBUR B. FOSTER, OF EOCKVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

DISPLAY-FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,122, dated June 16,1885.

Application filed September 26, 1984.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILBUR B. FOSTER, of Rockville, in the county ofTolland and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Display-Frames; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby aperson skilled in the art can make and use the same, reference beingmade to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, where Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of myimproved frame. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of the same. Fig. 3is a view in vertical central section of the frame on plane denotedbyline 0'0 x of Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 5 are side views of the frame,illustrating several of the positions in which the frame may be placed.

My invention relates to the class of devices adapted for use instorewindows and like places for the purpose of holding and display ingin any desired position articles offered for sale.

My invention consists in certain details of the construction of theframe and its parts and in the combination of those parts, as moreparticularly hereinafter described.

111 the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes the standards of thedevice, and b the jointed frame that is hinged to the top of thestandards, and across the frame and the standards are supported rods 0,on which the goods may be hung or to which any device for holdingarticles may be fastened. Each standard is preferably made up of severaljointsvof me tallic tubing arranged so as to slide one within the otherin such manner that the frame may be placed at any desired height withinthe play of the telescoping joints, and any suitable form of clamp, a,may be used to hold the joints in the desired position. The frame I) ismade up of side bars, I). The cross-rods c are supported on the sidebars and are fastened to them by means of clamp-screws. The side bars ofthis frame extend through socketpieces (I, that are supported on the topof each standard, so that the frame when considered as a whole may beset so as to extend across the standard, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and5.

The side bars, I), of the frame are movably held in the socket-pieces(1, each of which is (No model.)

hinged to the upper end of the respective standards in such manner thatthe frame as a whole may be set in a plane at any angle with thevertical plane of the standards. The pivot on which the sock et-piccehinges bears a clamping-nut, d, by means of which the frame may be heldat the desired angle, and the clampscrew d serves to hold the side barof the frame in any desired position within the limit of thelongitudinal play ofthe bar in the sock et-picce. Each side bar isjointed at one or more points along its length, so that it may bendforward or back at an angle with the rest of the frame, an d each jointis provided with a clamp similar to that already described for fixingthe parts of the frame at the desired angle with each other. Thecross-rods c are supported in sockets in the sliding supports or bearers6, each of which bears a CLLIIIP'SGIOW, e, for grasping and holding therod 0, when desired, and each bearer also has another clamp-screw, e,for fixing its position on the bar, and the standards a are alsoprovided with the sliding bearers, which have clampserews, and whichalso serve to support the crossrods. By clamping the cross-rods c in thebearings 0 upon each of the side bars the whole frame is stiffened andrendered firm against any sidewise pressure on the frame.

The frame I) is also provided with an extensible section, If, the partsbeing connected by a yokedevice, f, which is made up of the crosspiatef, fast to the bottom of the rod-section b and to the rods f that lieone on each side of the center rod and slide through holes in thecross-plate 1, that is fast to the lower end of the upper section of theside bar, and the crossplate f, that is fast to the rods f and slides onthe side bar. The plate f bears a clampscrew, P, by means of which theyoke may be clamped at any point of its slide play on the side bar. Thisparticular means for providing for the extension, however, is notessential, as the side bars may be made in sliding sections thattelescope, as in the case of the standards 5 neither is the devicelimited to the cylindrical form of the parts making up the standards andframe, as tubes or rods of any other outline in cross-section may beused to effect the same purpose, and the sections of the standards maybe slotted or grooved to provide for the passage of guide-pins that prevent the rotation of the intro-sliding parts and serve to render theframe as a whole stiffer and less liable to sway.

The standards are provided with feet or broadened bases a which may besecured to the floor by means of nails or screws, and when the standardsare thus secured the frame may be adjusted and held in a vertical plane,as shown in Fig. 2; or it may be bent so that part of its length is atan angle with its standards and the rest is in a vertical plane, asshown in Fig. 4; or the frame may be fastened at a considerable anglefrom thevertical with its parts all in one plane or bent so as to slopedownward on opposite sides of the plane of the standards.

On any one of the cross-bars c-as theupperremovable hat-supports 9 maybe clamped,and the frame, equipped as described, may be readily adjustedto hold a largely varied class of goods, and may be adjusted to fitwindows of different depths, or in positions where the space as tovertical and horizontal extent is limited.

Any desired number of standards and side bars may be used, and the framemay be made up to any width, depending on the length of the cross barsused.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a display-frame, in combination, thestandards a, the jointed frame I), hinged to the upper part of thestandards and extending across the latter through socket-pieces cl,with

3. In a display-frame, in combination, the

extensible standards a, having clamp-screws a, the extensible frame b,with hinged joints extending across the top of the standards and borneby the hinged socket-pieces d, that have clamp-screws d and dfland thecross-bars c,held by the adjustable supports 6, having clamp screws 6 c,all substantially as described.

4. In a display-frame, in combination, the extensible frame I), havingthe hinged side bars that are adj nstably supported in socketpieeesattached to the top of standards and extend across the latter, thehinged socketpieees bearing clamp-screws, the standard, and thecross-bars, all substantially as described.

VVILBUR B. FOSTER.

Witnesses:

CHAS. L. BURDETT, W. H. MARsH.

